Christianity and Animism in Melanesia

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Note on Vernacular Orthography

Abbreviations

Part 1: Biblical and Anthropological Models of Animism

Chapter 1: Folk Religion for the Bible and Early Church Fathers
Chapter 2: Folk Religion and Modern Anthropology

Part 2: Kastom on Tanna

Chapter 3: Kastom and Knowledge
Chapter 4: Cosmology (Ghosts and Spirits)
Chapter 5: Magic and “Goodness”
Chapter 6: Healing “Badness”
Chapter 7: Ethics and Taboos
Chapter 8: Cargoism
Chapter 9: Ritual

Part 3: Kastom and Christianity on Tanna

Chapter 10: Mission History and the Integration of Kastom and Christianity
Chapter 11: The Gospel-response Axis
Chapter 12: The Cultural-integration Axis
Chapter 13: Mixers, Transplanters, Contextualizers, and Separators

References

Appendix A: Glossary of Frequently USED terms in the Southwest Tanna Language
Appendix B: History of Resident Missions on Tanna
Appendix C: Gospel/culture Assessment Tool
Appendix D: Gospel/culture Grid